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  • Ballast
  • Opened October 1, 2008 | Runtime:1 hr. 36 min.
  • NR
  • In the cold, winter light of the rural Mississippi Delta, Marlee (Tarra Riggs), a single African-American mother, struggles to scratch a living for herself and her 12-year-old son, James (JimMyron Ross), who has begun to stumble under drug and Read More
  • Cast: Michael J. Smith, Sr., Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail, Ventress Bonner
  • Director: Lance Hammer
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign

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  • 100
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    This is the most significant feature about poor black life since Charles...

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Ballast inexorably grows and deepens and gathers power and absorbs us. I always...

  • 100
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    A rock-ribbed sense of committed, personal cinema and a core belief in people...

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The final shot, of the three characters now united, may be the quietest...

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